If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.